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Jun 25, 2013

Tradecraft: Cinemax's Hunted Continuation Takes Shape

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We heard last November that the hit Cinemax/BBC spy series Hunted (a hit on Cinemax, that is, but not on the Beeb), would return to the ...
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Tradecraft: Neeson Signs On for Taken 3

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Deadline reports that Liam Neeson "is closing a deal in the vicinity of $20 million" to reprise his role as Bryan Mills, the form...
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Jun 10, 2013

Movie Review: Erased aka The Expatriate (2012)

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The latest neo-Eurospy movie to hit American screens barely hit them at all; Erased (which came out in other territories last year as The...
Jun 7, 2013

Tradecraft: Colin Firth Joins the Secret Service in A Foreign Country

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 's Colin Firth is looking to renew his spy vows in two very different sorts of spy movies. The actor is in t...
Jun 6, 2013

Marvel to Reissue Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. Comics to Coincide With Joss Whedon's New TV Series

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I was hoping that we'd see some reissues of classic Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. comics to tie in with the debut this fall of Joss Wh...

Tradecraft: Robert Rodriguez and Roberto Orci Team Up For Bondian Latino Spy Series

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Sin City and Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez recently founded El Rey, a new English language cable network targeting young Latino audie...

First Trailer for John le Carre's A Most Wanted Man

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What a great surprise! I wasn't expecting to see anything from Anton Corbijn 's A Most Wanted Man (adapted from the 2008 John le Ca...
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Tradecraft: Javier Bardem Signs Up for More Spy Villainy

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Javier Bardem is following in the footsteps of Adolfo Celi, going from Bond Villain to (neo-) Eurospy villain.  Deadline reports that the S...
Jun 5, 2013

Paranoia Trailer

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The first trailer is finally out for Paranoia , the corporate espionage thriller we first heard about last spring starring Liam Hemsworth (...
May 30, 2013

Burn Notice to End with This Season

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It's a sad but inevitable day for Burn Notice fans. The final season draws nigh. USA confirmed that this would be the last year for th...
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May 29, 2013

Upcoming Spy DVDs: Wonder Women

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BayView Entertainment (controllers of the Retromedia catalog) will release the rare 1973 spy movie Wonder Women on DVD (a widescreen spec...
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May 28, 2013

Tradecraft: Henry Cavill Is the Latest Actor Mooted for Napoleon Solo

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Man of Steel star Henry Cavill, who screentested for the role of James Bond in 2005, is the latest actor to be linked to the role of Napo...
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Who Will Direct the Next Bond Movie?

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There have been a lot of rumors swirling around who will direct Bond 24 over the past week or so. Last week, The Daily Mail's Baz Bamig...
May 26, 2013

Tradecraft: More Transporter Movies Coming!

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It was EuropaCorp's Transporter movies starring Jason Statham that ushered in the whole Neo-Eurospy Age. From their success came furth...
May 25, 2013

Tradecraft: Cruise Quits U.N.C.L.E.

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I can't believe Deadline actually labels this story as a "shocker." Given the development history of this movie version of t...
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May 24, 2013

Movie Review: Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966)

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Harry Levin and Arduino Maiuri’s Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (produced by the prolific Dino De Laurentiis) is another one of those E...
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May 23, 2013

R.I.P. Steve Forrest

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Steve Forrest, the two-fisted, square-jawed star of ITC's The Baron , has passed away . He was 87. Forrest was one of the American acto...
May 20, 2013

Tradecraft: Olga Kurylenko Signs Up For Even More Spying

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The girl can't stop spying! Hot on the heels of joining Pierce Brosnan in The November Man , former Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko has atta...

Secret Agent Spoofs on TCM Tonight

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Set your DVRs: Turner Classic Movies has a great lineup of Sixties spy movies tonight! Spy spoofs to be exact. The fun starts at 8PM wit...
May 18, 2013

SuperSeven Contest Winners

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Thanks to everyone who entered. The chance to win DVD sets of the action-packed and hilarious Eurospy send-up web series The Adventures of ...
May 17, 2013

Contest Winners Coming Late Tonight

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I know I promised to post the names of the SuperSeven contest winners today, but it looks like I'll be delayed in posting until late to...

Olga Kurylenko Signs on for Pierce Brosnan Spy Movie November Man (Updated)

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The November Man (or possibly just " November Man " with no " The ," depending on what source you trust),  Pierce Bro...
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May 16, 2013

Reminder: Last Day to Enter Contest to Win SuperSeven DVDs!

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Today is the last day to enter the contest to win the 5-disc set of SuperSeven DVDs. If you haven't entered, do so by midnight tonight!...

Tradecraft: Tom Cruise to Shoot Both The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Mission: Impossible 5 This Year?

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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Tom Cruise "will star in and produce Mi5 and is expected to shoot the movie in the fall afte...
May 15, 2013

Tradecraft: Duncan Jones' Ian Fleming Biopic Gathers Steam

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It's been a while since we heard any updates on Moon director Duncan Jones' Ian Fleming biopic , Fleming . In the interim, Jones ha...

Tradecraft: CBS Picks Up Intelligence

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CBS has officially picked up the spy pilot Intelligence to series. No relation to the Canadian series of the same name, this Intelligence ...

Tradecraft: Iron Man 3 Writer Signs On for Mission: Impossible 5

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Deadline reports that Iron Man 3  co-writer Drew Pearce (who's also attached to another Robert Downey Jr. threequel, Sherlock Holmes 3 ...
May 14, 2013

Full-Length Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Trailer!

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At their upfront presentation today, ABC unvelied a new three-minute trailer for their Joss Whedon-produced fall TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L...
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May 13, 2013

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Show Officially Picked Up by ABC

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Who would have thought when the David Hasselhoff TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. aired that fifteen years later we'd actual...
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May 10, 2013

CONTEST: Win The Adventures of SuperSeven on DVD

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Yesterday I urged readers to support the terrific web series The Adventures of SuperSeven on Kickstarter . I still urge that. (There's...
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